State Of The Map U.S. 2015/Hack day

Monday June 8 of State Of The Map U.S. 2015 is the hack day with code sprints, documentation sprints, Missing Maps mapping party and a Maptime summit. Share your ideas and coordinate your activities on this page!

We are mapping every street tree in NYC! This is an outdoor, interactive citizen science mapping event. TreesCount! 2015 is NYC Parks' campaign to spark and sustain public engagement with New York City's urban forest through participatory mapping events, in partnership with local neighborhood and civic organizations across the five boroughs.

For the day, we are looking for up to 30 people to work with six NYC Parks staff to map trees in the West Village near NYU.

In the morning: come learn how thousands of volunteers will be mapping NYC street trees this summer and fall using TreeKIT (http://treekit.org), a mapping method that combines simple site surveying tools with geospatial technology to derive the location of street trees with a high level of precision. Meet first at NYU Hack Day venue - we will go together outside as a group at approx ~9:30 am for training.

Spend the afternoon in the West Village working in teams documenting NYC’s street trees and creating open data. All equipment will be provided by NYC Parks. If you know how to contribute data to OSM - collect data to add to OSM!

Maptime summit

OpenHistoricalMap Hack Day

USGS Fracking and Minerals Visualization Challenges

Visualizing the Hydraulic Fracturing Lifecycle
Develop interactive geospatial visualizations and map stories about the water and chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. Integrate the USGS Produced Waters Geochemical Database with other datasets related to hydraulic fracturing, like FracFocus, to visualize and explain the lifecycle of hydraulic fracturing water and chemicals.

Visualizing the Lifecycle of Critical Minerals
Develop interactive geospatial visualizations and map stories about the lifecycle of critical minerals. Integrate USGS mineral data with other datasets to uncover any economic, environmental, geopolitical, or public health consequences from developing, using, and disposing critical minerals.